Rankings

Rankings

The Penn State Smeal College of Business has earned the No. 1 rank in undergraduate supply chain technology education and the No. 4 spot in graduate education, according to Software Advice, a subsidiary of IT research and advisory firm Gartner.

Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, offers the best value of any college or university in northwestern Pennsylvania, according to new rankings by PayScale Inc., a data company that tracks employee salaries. In the western 33 counties of Pennsylvania, only Carnegie Mellon University does better.

In the most recent institutional rankings released by the National Science Foundation of total research expenditures for science and engineering, Penn State stands second in the nation, behind only Johns Hopkins and tied with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the number of fields in which it is ranked in the top ten.

Penn State's Smeal College of Business and College of Nursing have substantially improved their standings in the latest U.S. News & World Report ranking of graduate programs. The 2016 edition of "Best Graduate Schools," released today (March 10), reviewed professional graduate school disciplines in business, education, engineering, law, medicine and nursing.

The Department of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine is ranked second among its group of 49 peer institutions in 2014 funding from the National Institutes of Health, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.

U.S. News & World Report ranks Penn State’s online master of business administration program the seventh-best in the nation, sharing a position with Carnegie Mellon University. U.S. News evaluated the programs using four criteria: faculty credentials, student engagement, admissions selectivity and student services and technology.

Penn State's iMBA is taught primarily by faculty members at the Black School of Business at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and is delivered worldwide by Penn State's World Campus.

Penn State has again been named one of the 100 Best Values in Public Colleges by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. The annual ranking placed the University at No. 56 among four-year public schools that “combine outstanding academics with affordable cost” for 2014-15. The ranking reflects schools’ value for in-state students. Kiplinger’s also compiles out-of-state value rankings, with Penn State also ranked in the top 100, at No. 68.

Research and information published in the American Journal of Education (AJE) is impacting education and educational research in substantive ways. The journal, housed in the Penn State College of Education, brings scientific information about a variety of topics in education to a broad public audience and is cited by an increasing number of education researchers in other relevant scholarly journals.

Receiving five out of five “mortarboards,” Penn State's Schreyer Honors College has been recognized for the high quality of its programs in a recent evaluation of public honors colleges by Public University Press. “The ranking reflects the exceptional academic work and leadership we see put forth by our Scholars each day, as well as the continued support of the University to enhance honors education at Penn State,” said Schreyer Honors College Dean Christian M. M. Brady.

Penn State World Campus received another accolade for its support and services for veteran students. The Military Times ranked the World Campus No. 13 on its "Best for Vets" listing of colleges and universities.